多彩な季節感を育む日本の気候環境に関する大学での学際的授業 （暖候期の降水の季節変化に注目して）

Interdisciplinary Class in Okayama University on the Climate Environment around Japan in Association with the Variety of Seasonal Feeling (with Attention to the Seasonal Cycle of Rainfall in the Warm Season)

The present study is a part of the activity to develop an interdisciplinary class on the climate environment
around the Japan Islands in association with the “seasonal feeling”, with attention to the seasonal cycle of the weather
systems and the rainfall characteristics during the warm season. Firstly, the school song “Wa-ka-ba” (which means the
deep green leaves) was analyzed as a typical song expressing the season just between the spring and the Baiu, for
developing study materials for the joint activity of meteorology to music. Next, seasonal difference of the rainfall
characteristics around the Japan Islands was reviewed together with the new preliminary analyses, with attention to the
contribution of the “heavy rainfall days” to the total precipitation amount. Finally, the joint activity of the art with
meteorology for the class at the Faculty of Education, Okayama University was reported, together with the analyses of
the students’ works expressing the rainfall event in a specified season by themselves.